Friends, Seasons greetings! Before I embark on this more-serious-than-normal edition of the Lens I want to wish you and yours a beautiful holiday season. Now that that’s over, in case you missed it, the American government has shutdown, our allies feel “betrayed”, “blindsided”, the Kurds are facing imminent slaughter, the last great protector of the … Continue reading December 23rd
Category: Nov. 15 – Feb. 18
December 10th
Friends, I meant to update everyone on Thursday but wanted to wait for the Mueller filings on Friday afternoon. So then I meant to send this out on Friday but had to mentally prepare for a Christmas party (shouts out to my fellow introverts). Then I was going to do it on Saturday but I … Continue reading December 10th
November 30th
Friends, Happy Friday! If you are reading this at work, leave. If you are reading this in the library, shut your laptop (after reading this) and go meet up with some friends. You deserve it. And anyways we are millenials, we can’t be expected to work after 6 on a Friday. **For older readers please … Continue reading November 30th
November 21st
Friends, I wanted to catch you before Thanksgiving because if you intend to have fruitful conversations with your relatives about politics you’ll want to read this beforehand. Although, I may be taking a year off from political discourse at family gatherings after calling several loved ones uneducated and ignorant…. they left shortly thereafter. Anyways… let’s … Continue reading November 21st
November 15th
Friends, First of all thank you for joining the Lens (thoughts on name?) email list. I meant to send my first update last week but it was my birthday weekend and thus I was too hungover to think. Fortunately, the first week of my Jordan year has come with increased motivation. I’m going to try … Continue reading November 15th